Massive Attack Announce Heligoland

Feature by Rab Shatner | 24 Nov 2009

After years of speculation, Massive Attack have announced details of their fifth studio album, entitled Heligoland. Due for release on the 8th of February, it features guest vocal and instrumental appearances from Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey and Tunde Adebimpe amongst others.

Long time collaborator Horace Andy also returns alongside Massive Attack founding members Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall.

The track listing is as follows:

Pray For Rain - featuring Tunde Adebimpe
Babel – featuring Martina Topley-Bird
Splitting The Atom – featuring Horace Andy and Damon Albarn
Girl I Love You – featuring Horace Andy
Psyche – featuring Martina Topley-Bird
Flat Of The Blade – featuring Guy Garvey and Damon Albarn
Paradise Circus – featuring Hope Sandoval
Rush Minute
Saturday Come Slow – featuring Damon Albarn and Adrian Utley
Atlas Air – featuring Robert del Naja

Over the last three years Robert Del Naja has written and produced soundtracks for a number of films and documentaries, including Trouble In The Water, 44 Inch Chest, In Prison My Whole Life and Gamorra, the latter for which he won the David Di Donatello Award for Best Song.

This year Massive Attack won the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards.

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